[bamahead]

Obama’s achievement represents the final repudiation of the Founders’ intentions regarding the selection, and hence the role, of presidents ... The Founders, Ceaser says, “were deeply fearful of leaders deploying popular oratory as the means of winning distinction.” That deployment would invite demagoguery, which subverts moderation. “Brilliant appearances,” wrote John Jay in The Federalist Papers 64, “… sometimes mislead as well as dazzle.”



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[Chi-townChief]

Is Georgie rolling over??

[Red Badger]

We could call this election: The Triumph of the George Wills

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[IoCaster]

Shut up George...

To ignore the DBMs role in selecting and electing this Marxist street punk is to be willfully blind to reality.

[dirtboy]

Dear Ms. Will:

You have a lot of gall mentioning the intent of the Founders when you actively trashed the only person on either ticket who had ANY grasp of originalism. Go back to playing with baseball cards and leave the Consititution to those who actually READ it.

[SueRae]

Couldn’t this have been published before the election?

Wake me in two years for the midterms...

[rabscuttle385]

James W. Ceaser, professor of politics at the University of Virginia

WAHOO-WA from Mr. Jefferson's University!

The brief nonpartisan system of candidate selection alarmed some thoughtful people because it left ambitious individuals unconstrained by any dependency. Hence the desire to involve the parties in presidential selection, thereby requiring aspirants to submit to principles and agendas not entirely their own.

And in the end, the American electorate is caught between two warring factions, each with fairly similar agendas and principles when it comes to procuring and maintaining a hold on power, and each with a complete disgust towards and abhorrence of the Constitution...and of the wishes of the electorate, more generally.

[1Old Pro]

Obama is in WAY over his head. Our world became more dangerous when he was elected.

[Malesherbes]

I am not a fan of George Will; in fact, I don’t like him very much. But occasionally he mentions something that he has read that is worth our attention. This is such a piece. We should thank Prof. Ceaser for writing it and Will for publicizing it.

It is ironic that it should appear in Newsweek which has been the MSNBC of the weeklies.

Obama and his campaign is indeed the final repudiation of the Founding Fathers. What really distinguishes Obama from Carter is that Carter was an accident. Obama is the result of a carefully orchestrated effort by the radical left in tandem with the entrenched and corrupt political machine which controls Chicago and the state of Illinois.

[Starboard]

The election of Obombast. A triumph of style over substance.

[Hawthorn]

So George Will produces a profoundly conservative essay, and he gets bashed by most of the posters on this thread.

The irony never ceases!